IRS' Current Audit Campaign: Preparing for Large Partnership, Complex PTE, and HNW Taxpayer Examinations

Course Details
- smart_display Format
On-Demand
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Intermediate
- work Practice Area
Tax Preparer
- event Date
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
110 minutes
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BARBRI is a NASBA CPE sponsor and this 110-minute webinar is accredited for 2.0 CPE credits.
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BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
This webinar will discuss the IRS' latest audit efforts, focusing on pass-through entities (PTEs) and high income taxpayers. Our panel of astute tax attorneys will explain the IRS' use of artificial intelligence (AI) to assist with these examinations, key PTE issues and entities it is examining, and steps individuals and PTEs can take to prepare for these imminent audits.
Faculty

Mr. Kalinski specializes in both civil and criminal tax controversies as well as sensitive tax matters including disclosures of previously undeclared interests in foreign financial accounts and assets and provides tax advice to taxpayers and their advisors throughout the world. He handles both federal and state tax matters involving individuals, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and trusts and estates. Mr. Kalinski has considerable experience handling complex civil tax examinations, administrative appeals, and tax collection matters. Prior to joining the firm, he served as a trial attorney with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel litigating Tax Court cases and advising revenue agents and revenue officers on a variety of complex tax matters.

Mr. Horwitz has over 35 years of experience as a tax attorney specializing in the representation of clients in civil and criminal tax cases, including civil audits and appeals, tax collection matters, criminal investigations, administrative hearings and in civil and criminal trials and appeals in federal and state courts. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Taxation Section of the State Bar of California and was Chair of the Taxation Section for 2015-2016 year. Mr. Horwitzwas previously Chair of the Tax Procedure and Litigation Committee of the State Bar Taxation Section. Prior to joining Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C., Mr. Horwitz was with a boutique tax controversy firm in Orange County, where he represented clients in civil and criminal tax cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeal, U.S. district courts, California superior courts, and before the Internal Revenue Service, the California Franchise Tax Board, the Board of Equalization, the Employment Development Department and the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. He has been a speaker on tax matters at the UCLA Tax Controversy Institute, the Annual Meeting of the Taxation Section of the California Bar and the California State Bar Annual Meeting. Mr. Horwitz has authored articles on tax law that have appeared in diverse publications, including Tax Notes, the Federal Lawyer (the publication of the Federal Bar Association), and the California Tax Lawyer. His monograph in “Responsible Persons and Fiduciary Liability” was published in the Proceedings of the New York University 75th Institute on Federal Taxation. Mr. Horwitz was an invited delegate to the 2015 U.S. Tax Court Judicial Conference. He is a member of the Planning Committee of the UCLA Tax Controversy Institute. Mr. Horwitz is a member of the bar in California and in Illinois. He is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Seventh, Ninth and Federal Circuits, the U.S. District Courts for the Central, Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of California, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Tax Court. He was named a Southern California Super Lawyer 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Description
In Notice 2023-166, the IRS announced its shift in focus from working-class taxpayers to wealthy taxpayers. With funds supplied by the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS is concentrating its attention on large corporations and partnerships, high-income earners, and abusive tax avoidance promoters.
Within the notice, the IRS explained that a "major expansion in high-income/high wealth and partnership compliance work" is a key element of the new campaign. Specifically included are taxpayers with income above $1 million and more than $250,000 in tax debt, and partnerships with over $10 million in assets with ongoing balance sheet discrepancies. Perhaps the greatest cause of unrest is the IRS' statement that its compliance team will use AI to aid in these examinations.
The IRS established a new division within its Large Business and International Division to assist with these audits. This new IRS unit will take a broader look at all complex partnerships. With the heightened reporting requirements for these flow-through entities, PTE practitioners and owners need to be wary but ready for the IRS' latest campaign.
Listen as our panel of notable federal tax litigation experts analyzes the IRS' current enforcement efforts and steps partnerships and high net worth individuals must take to prepare.
Outline
- IRS’ latest campaign: an introduction
- Large partnership audits
- Other partnership audits
- High wealth taxpayers
- IRS' use of AI in audits
- Initial audit considerations and responses
- Other examination considerations
Benefits
The panel will review these and other critical issues:
- What specific partnership issues is the IRS examining?
- What immediate actions should a partnership take when an examination notice is received?
- How is the IRS using AI to assist with its audits?
- What businesses and individuals are targeted by the IRS in this most recent campaign?
NASBA Details
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify key individual taxpayers targeted in the IRS' latest campaign
- Determine how the use of AI impacts IRS audits
- Ascertain actions PTEs and HNW individuals should take now to prepare for impending examinations
- Decide immediate items to address when a partnership audit notice is received
- Field of Study: Taxes
- Level of Knowledge: Intermediate
- Advance Preparation: None
- Teaching Method: Seminar/Lecture
- Delivery Method: Group-Internet (via computer)
- Attendance Monitoring Method: Attendance is monitored electronically via a participant's PIN and through a series of attendance verification prompts displayed throughout the program
- Prerequisite: Three years+ business or public firm experience preparing complex tax forms and schedules, supervising other preparers or accountants. Specific knowledge and understanding of pass-through taxation, including taxation of partnerships, S corporations and their respective partners and shareholders.

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